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‘One of the great landmarks of the Sussex coast’, finally finished some 156 years after work was started

John Goodall looks at the recent completion of the chapel of Lancing College, one of the great landmarks of the Sussex coast. Photography by Paul Highnam for Country Life.

Lancing College Chapel was begun in 1868 with the intention that it should be one of the defining landmarks of the Sussex coastline. That ambition — it claims today to be the fourth-tallest ecclesiastical building in the British Isles — would in the ordinary run of things surely have doomed it to…

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